[SATLUG] Firefox 3

[Bruce Dubbs]

I came across the following link:

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Linux/Runtime_Requirements

They are basically wanting to drop support for older libraries.  From a
developer's standpoint, I can understand not wanting to support older
stuff, but this seems to be too aggressive to me.  The libraries are:

* GTK+ 2.10.x            Jul 06
* GLib 2.12.x            Aug 06
* GNOME 2.16.x           Sep 06 (which libs?)
* Pango 1.14.x           Aug 06
* Cairo 1.4.x            Mar 07
* xorg (libX11) 1.0.x    Dec 05
* dbus 1.0.x             Nov 06
* hal 0.5.8              Sep 06
* libjpeg v6b            Jun 01
* libpng 1.2.x           Sep 01
* zlib 1.2.3             Jul 05

What I have done is go to the source sites and found when the .0 release
of each of the above versions was released.  I really don't have any
problem with any of these for my personal systems, but any date later
than 18 months ago seems too recent to me for a general release.  After
all, it takes several months for the releases to actually get into a
distro release.

The not supporting distros with a cairo release of only last month seems
to be the worst offender.

What do you think?

  -- Bruce